No garden without the large luminous flowers of Ipomoea Heavenly Blue or Grandpa Ott – my favorite color varieties. Alas, it’s quite too hot and dry for them here. I did try sowing them but if they come up at all they need to be watered a lot and the first flowers show in October, after it has rained a few times… So I will have to do without them, I guess.
Addendum 2024: I’ve grown quite enamoured of the beautiful purple Ipomoea learii or indica that grows in a lot of gardens here and is frost hardy down to -7C. But it is supposed to be a vigourous climber that can be invasive and it does need more water than I really want to give in the garden. It might work in a pot on the terrace though – it’s on the shopping list for some time in the spring. To be continued.
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